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Shutter Island
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Shutter Island

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February 20, 20101h 10mExplicit

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Shutter Island? Whaddya wanna go theah foah?

Opening this weekend, Shutter Island reunites Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio for a dark, paranoid descent into madness. Set on a remote island housing the criminally insane, the film follows U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) as he investigates a disappearance that quickly spirals into something far more unsettling. With storm-lashed cliffs, locked wards, and Leo’s revived Bah-stan accent front and center, Shutter Island arrives as Scorsese’s most overtly commercial thriller in years, drawing comparisons to his earlier suspense work like Cape Fear. But is this moody noir a gripping psychological puzzle, or does it lose its footing as the mystery deepens? Stuart, Arnie, and Jakob head to the island to decide whether this is a movie you’d be crazy to miss.

 

{Martin Scorsese / Leonardo DiCaprio Series}